Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award

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The Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award is an annual prize presented by the American Physical Society in recognition of an outstanding contribution to physics research by a woman. It recognizes and enhances outstanding achievements by women physicists in the early years of their careers. [1]

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The prize has been awarded since 1986 and is named after Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Nobel laureate in 1963 with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Paul Wigner. Goeppert-Mayer and Jensen were awarded their prize "for their discovery of the nuclear shell structure". Goeppert-Mayer was the second woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics after Marie Curie. [1] [2] [3]

Recipients

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References

  1. 1 2 "Maria Goeppert Mayer Award". American Physical Society. Retrieved 6 December 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Nobel Prize in Physics 1963". NobelPrize.org. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  3. ↑ "August 1948: Maria Goeppert Mayer and the Nuclear Shell Model". aps.org. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
  4. ↑ Maria Goeppert Mayer Award, American Physical Society
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